“When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person.”

Love, honor, and negotiate.

A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations.

But leisure has little to do with one’s happiness.

Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, “I don’t know. But one thing I do know.

When I get there I am not going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Moses? Why weren’t you David?’ I am only going to be asked, ‘Why weren’t you Zuscha? Why weren’t you fully you?'”

One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

You will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people.

The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

I don’t like tokenism. I don’t like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.